Read about projects using vintage and salvaged architectural details and materials, including newel posts, columns, corbels, and more
Salvage Photo Gallery
You wanted to know: What ever happened to those gorgeous, ravaged beauties we featured on the back page of the magazine? Learn which of last year's houses have sold, been demolished, or are still up for grabs… more
New Ideas
by Deborah Snoonian & Amy R. Hughes
Breathe new life into old things around your house with these alternate uses…more
by Sal Vaglica
Rebuild an old light on the cheap…more
How to unearth and care for garden-worthy finds
How to convert a vintage bathroom chest into a place to store and pass on information in the kitchen
Retired barrels built to age wine, cure olives, or pickle cucumbers yield high-grade wood for new flooring, paneling, and trim
Our Cambridge, Massachusetts, project house used wood from old, redwood olive-oil barrels. Here's how to get wood that has a history that's longer, even, than yours.
Use cared wooden corbels to build a more picturesque porch, add character under roof eaves, or brace a bedside tale
Q:"How do I replace windows in odd-sized openings?"
Q: "How do I move one-story brick columns covered with
plaster?"
Put reclaimed wood balusters back to work in your home as table legs—or even as elegant candlesticks
Most Popular Salvage Articles
In the Magazine
April 2010
Expand your knowledge about topics covered in the print edition of This Old House.
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